20% decline in expats visiting clinics

  • 16/02/2023

Kuwait City, Feb 16: Health sources revealed that preliminary estimates indicate a decline in the rate of expatriates visiting health centers by 20 to 25 percent, since the imposition of fees for dispensing medicines as of December 18 at 5 dinars for health centers and hospital accidents, and 10 dinars for outpatient clinics.

The estimates are based on a comparison between the current numbers recorded between December 19, 2022 and early February 2023 and the official statistics for the year 2020. The number of non-Kuwaitis visitors to accident clinics in hospitals reached 975,553 visits.The number of visits would decrease by about 300,000 by the end of this year.

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